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Poverty rate in Central Highlands down 2.8 percent each year

Poverty rate in the Central Highlands dropped by 2.8 percent annually over the past 15 years, the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands said on June 30 .
Poverty rate in Central Highlands down 2.8 percent each year ảnh 1Poverty rate in the Central Highlands drops by 2.8 percent annually over the past 15 years (Source: VNA)
LamDong (VNA) – Poverty rate in the Central Highlands dropped by 2.8percent annually over the past 15 years, the Steering Committee for the CentralHighlands said on June 30.

Thecommittee told a conference to review communications work in the CentralHighlands held in Lam Dong province on June 30 that the rate was 2.5 percentduring 2001-2005 and 3.5 percent during 2006-2010 and 2011-2015 periods.

Thepoverty rate in ethnic minority-inhabited areas contracted from 47.8 percent in2006 to 19.9 percent at present, the committee said, adding that famine hasbeen basically addressed in these areas.

Inpoor districts as listed in the Government’s Resolution No. 30a/2008/NQ-CP, therate was reduced from 62 percent in 2001 to 46.64 percent in 2015.

Overthe past ten years, the region provided vocational training for 168,000 locals andgenerated jobs for 826,000 others, of which 182,000 belong to ethnic minoritygroups, helping cut unemployment rate in urban areas in the region from 5.16percent in 2001 to 2.51 percent, the lowest level nationwide.

Atthe conference, the committee rolled out orientations for the communicationswork in the time ahead, focusing on the implementation of the Government’sguidelines to close forest gates, the development of high-tech agriculture and acoffee industry adaptive to climate change, as well as outcomes of the realisationof the national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction and new-stylerural area building.

Onthis occasion, the committee also announced results of cooperation betweenVietnamese and Lao and Cambodia localities that share the border line.

TheCentral Highlands region comprises Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Dak Nong, and LamDong provinces, with total population of about 5.64 million people and 47ethnic groups.-VNA
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